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- Mon May 20, 2024 1:22 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 293
Re: Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
Mission Impossible A one screen lunar lander. Not much to say, just like Crash. The keys provide left/ right and very very gently thrust. It only generates two speeds of descent, so no momentum balancing going on. Theres rows of sprites and UFOs to dodge through, but the difficulty seems to be base...
- Mon May 20, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 293
Re: Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
Gotcha! Another two screen wonder. Crash again provides the keys so I don't need to read the instructions. The first screen is easy enough and rather pointless. The second screen is where the game really begins. It plays like one of the Amoebatron levels in Manic Miner where the sprites move vertic...
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 293
Re: Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
Zaxxan A UDG version of Zaxxon which isn't actually terrible. Jerky scrolling and movement as one would expect, but considering that Zaxxon requires all the screen to scroll down, it does a reasonable job. Plinky plonk beeps. Crash pulls it up on the jerky scrolling and small aircraft sprite rather...
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:09 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 293
Re: Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain What should be the happy intersection of my two favourite things from the early 80s : Fighting Fantasy and the greatest Spectrum game of all : Halls Of The Things. But its not quite how one would hope. Its a very empty maze game. HotT is very much about fighting the ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Wednesday 3 am quiz: Software houses by street view building
- Replies: 23
- Views: 429
Re: Wednesday 3 am quiz: Software houses by street view building
As a youngster I'd always imagined gleaming towers of industry. Most of these, especially number 5, are the sort of place when you find an especially cheap bit of kit of ebay, look up the posting address, and backoff cos it looks like a dodgy untraceable address.
- Wed May 15, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 293
Re: Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
ODYSSEY 1 Now this is the dumpster diving I came for. Never played it, never heard of it. A long pause to begin suggests compiled basic. Again the Crash review comes to my aid by telling me the controls without having to read the instructions. Caps left, Z right, H thrust, top row to shoot. It will...
- Wed May 15, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 293
Replaying all the games in Crash issue one.
Many years ago, on the other site, there was a fun thread of replaying all the games in order of review from the first copy of Crash. I thought Id do the same and bore you all with my thoughts. First up is : Deathchase It’s a surprise that the first game reviewed is the very familiar and comfortable...
- Fri May 10, 2024 3:05 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Guardian article on the best video games magazines
- Replies: 16
- Views: 334
Re: Guardian article on the best video games magazines
Really odd that there's minimal call back to the 8 bit era. And in the honourable mention section there is :
Sinclair User (some of the best cover designs of the era),
Which probably means Crash surely. Unless they really did like Kamikaze Bear
Sinclair User (some of the best cover designs of the era),
Which probably means Crash surely. Unless they really did like Kamikaze Bear
- Thu May 09, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Why didn't the Spectrum have an FPS?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 917
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:15 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Why didn't the Spectrum have an FPS?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 917
Re: Why didn't the Spectrum have an FPS?
It needs a bit of beard stroking about what an FPS is.... Theres no shooting in 3D Monster Maze, but what about Zigzag from 1984? Plus it had a great death animation when you catch up with the baddies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K7L7kevtok&ab_channel=zxspectrumgames4&t=187 And I like t...
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:40 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Coincidence!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2422
Re: Coincidence!
Michael Sheard, I think his name was. Thats the one. Legend! Uboat captain in Raiders Of The Lost Ark, and Hitler himself in Last Crusade. Admiral Ozzel in Empire Strikes Back. And most of all, Mr Bronson in Grange Hill. He seems to have played a Hitler character five times in his career. Probably ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Coincidence!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2422
Re: Coincidence!
The CCS game Vulcan was the highlight of traditional wargames on the Spectrum (Admittedly a limited field, unlike the C64). https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/v/Vulcan.scr&border=0 But that was definitely ripped off by other games from the same publisher, none of which ...
- Sun May 05, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Hidden code in Brainstorm game
- Replies: 6
- Views: 406
Re: Hidden code in Brainstorm game
Still an interesting read. It's always odd that Pete Cooke started with text adventures, rose to the mighty heights of Tau Ceti and Earthlight, then finished up writing stuff for Firebird and cover tapes.
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Coincidence!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2422
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8025
- Views: 254503
Re: Guess the screen$
Tuareg. Had to do a lot of searching to find similar looking art style, then check all the credits and see if there was a match. Wow, I only know a handful of Toposoft games from other publishers. But they sure made pretty loading screens for 1988. The COLISEUM and SURVIVOR screens are mint. https:...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: A crap version of...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 675
Re: A crap version of...
Most certainly Yeti is a crap version of Exolon.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Super Chopper by SSS. "There is... another... Airwolf..."
- Replies: 4
- Views: 386
Re: Super Chopper by SSS. "There is... another... Airwolf..."
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj5KXxbt081PhF4y9mi1KgGOBi076uucdXR4sSviHrbYn_Ej-bVtVRgQJq8GLSaqMRitbgDgU8ErsQSKh5n0DbWupLdYvz_Pv3JIuGip59Cv2sWjUC5jt5-1kGSEurVKxPD5XTLqywWMs/s1600/Colossus_3.5.jpg Is this a film reference? Anyway, that was a good read, thankyou. I liked m...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Who did the graphics for Denton Designs?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 287
Who did the graphics for Denton Designs?
Theres a series of games with very similar graphics/ sprite animation, like : Enigma Force Gift From The Gods Bounces Cosmic Wartoad In each game the graphics are good, and the main sprite especially is a tall filled sprite that leans forward when moving in profile. The only name that connects them ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Cassette 50: calling all Sherlocks...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 584
Re: Cassette 50: calling all Sherlocks...
Very interesting, thanks @Lee P . I didn't know this compilation existed. Its not quite the same without a watch-calculator that the Cascade included.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8025
- Views: 254503
Re: Guess the screen$
Klax?
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8025
- Views: 254503
Re: Guess the screen$
Tau Ceti - 1983 version?
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: SAM Coupé
- Topic: Popular SAM Coupé Misconceptions
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1611
Re: Popular SAM Coupé Misconceptions
Nope - that is completely incorrect. As per an interview I did with Alan, it is "Some Amazing Micro" - not Son of Alan Miles or any other daft variation you may have been told :) Coupe (sorry can't do the accent bit!) is based on the car-like profile, and apparently the shape of an ice-cr...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:46 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games with working clocks in them
- Replies: 4
- Views: 294
Games with working clocks in them
Theres lots of games with an in-game timer, usually shown on the GUI in text, to provide a reason for the player to get a move on before the game ends at midnight, or something like that. EG JSW or Sherlock, among many others. However the otherwise unremarkable Grumpy Gumphrey Supersleuth has a neat...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: SAM Coupé
- Topic: Popular SAM Coupé Misconceptions
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1611
Re: Popular SAM Coupé Misconceptions
For some reason I seem to remember reading in a magazine that SAM stood for S pectrum AM iga and that it was going to be this giant slaying super computer. Apparently not :( Back in the day at one of the roadshows they did, I got it straight from one of the founders (Either Alan Miles or Bruce Gord...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 8025
- Views: 254503
Re: Guess the screen$
A day in the life?